{"product_id":"sweet-movie","title":"Sweet Movie - Poems (National Poetry Series) (Book:8)","description":"\u003cb\u003e“What gives us the right to listen to someone else’s body?”—Alisha Dietzman, from \u003ci\u003eSweet Movie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA National Poetry Series winner selected by Victoria Chang, \u003ci\u003eSweet Movie\u003c\/i\u003e confronts romantic and religious masochism to interrogate spiritual, sexual, and moral agency\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSweet Movie\u003c\/i\u003e’s love poems and ekphrasis echo splintered versions of the same question: how do we navigate a world where the expectations of our performance—our presentation, our means of existence—are dictated by the viewers themselves?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMirroring the uncertain, unstable tenor of Dušan Makavejev’s controversial avant-garde film \u003ci\u003eSweet Movie\u003c\/i\u003e (1974), the voices in \u003ci\u003eSweet Movie\u003c\/i\u003e are equal parts docile, feverish, and violent. This collection reimagines a feminist approach to religious masochism to explore the ways women are denied agency by both their faith communities and by outsiders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDietzman’s poems move through locations across Central Europe and the American South. Each new landscape informs the next: Memphis appears in Berlin in the form of a dead deer, and Southern syntax haunts an elegy for Gustavs Klucis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe inspired poems from \u003ci\u003eSweet Movie\u003c\/i\u003e use film and art to break open seeing. What results are deeply insightful and spacious poems of faith, displacement, and love. Perpetually observant, \u003ci\u003eSweet Movie\u003c\/i\u003e guardedly but desperately consumes a world that has become unsettling and uncertain.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51166236049696,"sku":"9780807013281","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780807013281.jpg?v=1769712815","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/sweet-movie","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}